Meta-Review: Ori and the Blind Forest (Xbox One, PC)
When it was first revealed at last year’s E3, Moon Studio’s Ori and the Blind Forest stood out to me as one of the most beautiful looking games at the show. The […]
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Pebble: the 16 Million Dollar Smart Watch
Last year around this time I wrote about my first-hand (wrist?) experience with the original Pebble watch after nine months of real-world use. I concluded that I loved the Pebble […]
Review: Pneuma: Breath of Life (PC, Xbox One)
Pneuma: Breath of Life, a short downloadable puzzle game developed by Deco Digital and Bevel Studios, is a beautiful world of contemplation that, while sometimes muddied by overly poetic and […]
Meta-Review: The Order: 1886 (PS4)
I have already written at length about the struggles The Order has faced due to earlier reports of the game’s length, so I don’t need to go into those here. […]
Meta-Review: Evolve (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
After countless Alphas and Betas (and lets not even start on the Capas and Decas), Turtle Rock Studios and 2K have finally released Evolve, the 4v1 multiplayer shooter/monster simulator. We […]
Life Is (not that) Strange (Review)
How Can A Game Striving To Be So Original Turn Out To Be So Remarkably Derivative I really really wanted to like Dontnod Entertainment’s Life is Strange, an episodic choose […]
Meta-Review: Dying Light (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
The first big release of 2015 is here, and so to is our first meta-review. As is custom with games that we have not played here around the office, we […]
The Cultural Significance of Never Alone: Kisima Inŋitchuŋa
Polygon’s Ben Kuchera recently wrote a rather interesting opinion piece on video game criticism, describing the trade as based on two levels: the surface level criticisms that relay information on […]
Meta-Review: Super Smash Bros. (Wii U)
Okay. This is the big one. The Wii U’s flagship fall release is probably also the biggest game launch of the year with the exception of maybe the previous Nintendo […]
Meta-Review: Far Cry 4
Far Cry as a series has been at the upper echelon of open world shooters since it’s inception. The formula set forth in the first iteration was translated into a […]
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